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Every time a camera looks in the crowd's direction, the horns go up. When Acca Dacca's It's A Long Way To The Top plays over the front of house, they sing every word.

Sydney heavy-hitters Sienna Skies just wrapped up travelling the country supporting Silverstein on their headline Australian tour. Killyourstereo.com is proud to host the exclusive tour blog for the local band, continuing with part two written by guitarist Nick Musgrave. To introduce myself, I'm Nick and I play guitar in 'Sienna Skies'. Most would know me as the guitarist with the shorter hair, who is usually hiding behind our keyboardist Matty on stage. Here to bring you up to date on our tour with Canadian band 'Silverstein' from the Sydney leg. I begin with our hometown show at the Manning Bar in Sydney Uni, and we were all so psyched for this following on from the Adelaide & Melbourne shows of the tour, which both went off! This show was of even greater significance to some of us as we saw Silverstein for the first time in 2006 in the very same room. To now be playing as main support on their Australian tour is so surreal that I still have to pinch myself every night. After ...

"I haven’t even held the sexy package in my hands, and we all know that the best feeling is a sexy package in the hands."

“It started when I was 17, 18 years old; it was my outlet to make rock and roll. My actual name doesn’t sound very rock and roll, so I needed something more exciting."

“That’s the great thing about things like Twitter: when we first started in a band, there was a million miles between us and the fanbase. You could never really directly have a conversation with them; it was just too difficult."

“I got a call from the promoter saying there was a possibility of doing these shows with these other guys and I just said ‘count me in’. The four of us know each other pretty well and we’ve worked together a lot over the years."

"We like to smoke cigarettes and drink vodka and sleep with girls… Everything is about the girls in the end.”

“We can’t be bothered to remember songs, even though some of us might prefer us to remember songs.”

"Without giving too much away, most of the band is likely to be doing DJing beforehand, so hopefully we’ll whip the crowd up before the band plays."

“Yeah, there was a time where there wasn’t any music around that really represented what we were interested in at all."

“I wanted it to be like a legit ‘album’ type band – a content-driven band, rather than just a live band playing club shows."

“It’s been really busy and I’m kind of exhausted but, at the same time, I like moving around all the time – it really keeps you on your toes."